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* AlterEgoActing: Janelle Monáe's character, Cindi Mayweather.
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* AlterEgoActing: Janelle Monáe's character, Cindi Mayweather.Mayweather, not to mention her many sisters, and the apparently distinct Electric Lady.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Janelle claims to be a time traveller, and other such whimsical antics.
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* ''The Electric Lady'' (September 2013)
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* ''The Electric Lady'' Lady (Suites IV & V)'' (September 2013)
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* GirlinessUpgrade: Janelle is pushing the limits of her black and white aesthetic. She often wears more traditionally feminine clothing, always in black and white, and changed her once nude lipstick color to a bright red.
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* {{Stripperiffic}}: Averted, which is uncommon for R&B singers. She has yet to even show cleavage.
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* TheStoic: She certainly comes across as so in interviews, but during performances she is far more upbeat, and has at least twice been moved to tears on camera.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Averted, which is uncommon for R&B singers.She has yet to even show cleavage.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Averted, which is uncommon for R&B singers.
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* TheMovieBuff: Janelle has an extensive knowledge of cinema, as shown in "Tightrope" which references ''Meshes of the Afternoon'', and "Q.U.E.E.N", which references ''Qui êtes vous, Polly Magoo ?''.
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* RagsToRiches: This is noteworthy as Janelle Monae makes a point to use this part of her story to inspire both her fans and her aesthetic: her mother was a janitor, her father was a garbage truck driver who struggled with drug addiction, and while producing her first album, she worked as a maid. Today, she is about as famous as one can be while preserving their artistic integrity.
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* OpeningNarration: Some of her concert performances open with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtX6PfBtd10 one]], highly reminiscent of the narration of [[{{Dune}} Princess Irulan]].
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* OpeningNarration: Some of her concert performances open with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtX6PfBtd10 one]], [[{{Troperiffic}} highly reminiscent reminiscent]] of the narration of [[{{Dune}} Princess Irulan]].
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* OpeningNarration: Some of her concert performances open with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtX6PfBtd10 one]], highly reminiscent of the narration of [[{{Dune}} Princess Irulan]].
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* "Dance Apocalyptic" (2013)
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* CozyCatastrophe: "Dance Apocalyptic" encourages the listener to "dance until the end", "laugh at the zombie in the front yard", etc.
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Dance Apocalyptic" features lyrics about "[[CozyCatastrophe dancing to the end]]" and the video is interrupted by a news broadcast reporting on various major U.S. cities being destroyed by disasters.
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* PerformanceVideo: "Many Moons", although it still fits into the ''Metropolis'' concept.
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* PerformanceVideo: PerformanceVideo:
** "Many Moons", although it still fits into the ''Metropolis''concept.concept.
** "Dance Apocalyptic" features Monáe performing as the Electric Lady on an ''Series/AmericanBandstand'' pastiche.
** "Many Moons", although it still fits into the ''Metropolis''
** "Dance Apocalyptic" features Monáe performing as the Electric Lady on an ''Series/AmericanBandstand'' pastiche.
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\"It\'s her loyalty to a shirt and trousers that led many to assume that she is a lesbian. She responded: \"I only date androids\" (referring to her EP and album, which together tell the story of her android alter-ego Cindy Mayweather, liberator of the android race). \"That\'s great, they can claim me as well as the straight community, as well as androids,\" she says. \"I speak about androids because I think the android represents the new \'other\'. You can compare it to being a lesbian or being a gay man or being a black woman ... What I want is for people who feel oppressed or feel like the \'other\' to connect with the music and to feel like, \'She represents who I am\'.\" It\'s for this reason that she won\'t make any definitive declaration just now about her sexuality or her relationships. \"In due time, when I\'m ready to have a family and be out in the public with my family,\" she promises. \"As for now, my music, my performance, my voice, my message and what I\'m representing as a young African-American woman is what\'s most important.\" Part of that, of course, is demonstrated through her choice of clothes.
\"It\'s her loyalty to a shirt and trousers that led many to assume that she is a lesbian. She responded: \"I only date androids\" (referring to her EP and album, which together tell the story of her android alter-ego Cindy Mayweather, liberator of the android race). \"That\'s great, they can claim me as well as the straight community, as well as androids,\" she says. \"I speak about androids because I think the android represents the new \'other\'. You can compare it to being a lesbian or being a gay man or being a black woman ... What I want is for people who feel oppressed or feel like the \'other\' to connect with the music and to feel like, \'She represents who I am\'.\" It\'s for this reason that she won\'t make any definitive declaration just now about her sexuality or her relationships. \"In due time, when I\'m ready to have a family and be out in the public with my family,\" she promises. \"As for now, my music, my performance, my voice, my message and what I\'m representing as a young African-American woman is what\'s most important.\" Part of that, of course, is demonstrated through her choice of clothes.Added DiffLines:
* AmbiguouslyGay: Monáe's sexuality has been speculated upon, due in part to her {{Bifauxnen}} fashion sense. She has stated that she will publicly state her sexuality "in due time", for the moment offering that she "only dates androids"...where "android" stands in for the various oppressed minorities like gays and blacks.
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** Electric sheep are mentioned in "Faster", and the story's full title, ''DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'', is mentioned in "Make the Bus".
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** Electric sheep are mentioned in "Faster", "Faster" and "Q.U.E.E.N.", and the story's full title, ''DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'', is mentioned in "Make the Bus".
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* ''The Electric Lady'' (TBA 2013)
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* ''The Electric Lady'' (TBA (September 2013)
* AWildRapperAppears: "Q.U.E.E.N." ends with a rap verse from Monáe.
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* XMeetsY:
** [[{{Outkast}} Andre 3000]] meets AliciaKeys.
** [[OverlyLongGag ...meets Parliament-Funkadelic meets David Bowie meets Claude Debussy meets Prince meets John Barry meets Stevie Wonder...]]
** [[{{Outkast}} Andre 3000]] meets AliciaKeys.
** [[OverlyLongGag ...meets Parliament-Funkadelic meets David Bowie meets Claude Debussy meets Prince meets John Barry meets Stevie Wonder...]]
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* XMeetsY:
**XMeetsY: [[{{Outkast}} Andre 3000]] meets AliciaKeys.
** [[OverlyLongGag ...AliciaKeys. ([[OverlyLongGag ...meets Judy Garland meets Parliament-Funkadelic meets David Bowie meets Claude Debussy meets Prince meets John Barry meets Stevie Wonder...]]]])
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** [[OverlyLongGag ...
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* RuleOfCool: Several aspects of her aesthetic. For example, the "Q.U.E.E.N." video features a turntable whose needle is a golden canine tooth on a white skull.
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* TimePolice: The conceit for the "Q.U.E.E.N." video is that Monáe has been arrested by the time police and placed in a museum full of time-frozen musical revolutionaries, but is freed by some young freedom fighters.
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* TimePolice: The conceit for the "Q.U.E.E.N." video is that Monáe has been arrested by the time police Time Council and placed in a museum full of time-frozen musical revolutionaries, but is freed by some young freedom fighters.
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* ''The Electric Lady'' (TBA 2013)
Videography:
* "Many Moons" (2008)
* "Tightrope" (2010)
* "Cold War" (2010)
* "Q.U.E.E.N." (2013)
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* "Many Moons" (2008)
* "Tightrope" (2010)
* "Cold War" (2010)
* "Q.U.E.E.N." (2013)
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* ArcNumber: 57821, which is both Cindi's serial number and Janelle's patient number at the Palace of the Dogs Asylum as well as the title of a song on ''The [=ArchAndroid=]''.
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* ArcNumber: 57821, which is both Cindi's serial number and Janelle's number. It also appears as Monáe patient number at the Palace of the Dogs Asylum as well Asylum in the "Tightrope" video, and is used as the title of a song on ''The [=ArchAndroid=]''.[=ArchAndroid=]''.
* AscendedFangirl: ''The Electric Lady'' sees her performing alongside some of her influences, including Erykah Badu and Music/{{Prince}}.
* AscendedFangirl: ''The Electric Lady'' sees her performing alongside some of her influences, including Erykah Badu and Music/{{Prince}}.
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* BlackAndNerdy / OneOfUs: BlackAndNerdy[=/=]OneOfUs: Hell yeah.
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* TheOner: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmORiHNtN4 "Cold War"]] is a single long take of Janelle's face as she lip-syncs to the song.
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* ''The Audition''[[hottip:*:A self-published release from back before Monáe founded the Wondaland Arts Society. It has not been re-released under her label.]]
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* ''The Audition''[[hottip:*:A Audition''[[note]]A self-published release from back before Monáe founded the Wondaland Arts Society. It has not been re-released under her label.]][[/note]]
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* CoverSong: A cover of CharlieChaplin's "Smile" appears on ''The Chase''.
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* CoverSong: A cover of CharlieChaplin's Creator/CharlieChaplin's "Smile" appears on ''The Chase''.
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* HotChickInANiceSuit: Her signature look.
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* HotChickInANiceSuit: HotChickInABadassSuit: Her signature look.
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* HotChickInANiceSuit: Her signature look.
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** The music video for "Tightrope" features two cloaked figures with flat mirrors as masks. These same figures appeared in Maya Deren's classic 1940 avant garde film "Meshes of the Afternoon."
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Janelle Monáe Robinson, also known as Janelle Monáe, was born on December 1, 1985 in KansasCity, Kansas. As a child, she has always dreamed of being a performer on the stage. She left Kansas for New York to study theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. At first, Janelle aimed to become a performer on Broadway, but she changed her mind and went to music instead. She felt that music has the power to change the world. Later on, Janelle Monáe moved to Atlanta, GA, where she met Big Boi from {{Outkast}} and founded the Wondaland Arts Society. Big Boi introduced Monáe to Sean "P Diddy" Combs which led her to be signed to Bad Boy Records in 2006.
With a few exceptions, Monáe's songs [[ConceptAlbum tell the story]] of the futuristic dystopia of Metropolis and Cindi Mayweather, a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots popular musician android]] and [[SuperPrototype prototype]] for the equally popular, mass-produced Alpha Platinum 3000 droid model, who falls in love with a human named Anthony Greendown and finds a bounty placed on her head as a result.
With a few exceptions, Monáe's songs [[ConceptAlbum tell the story]] of the futuristic dystopia of Metropolis and Cindi Mayweather, a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots popular musician android]] and [[SuperPrototype prototype]] for the equally popular, mass-produced Alpha Platinum 3000 droid model, who falls in love with a human named Anthony Greendown and finds a bounty placed on her head as a result.
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Janelle Monáe Robinson, also known as Janelle Monáe, was born on December 1, 1985 in KansasCity, Kansas. As a child, she has had always dreamed of being a performer on the stage. She left Kansas for New York to study theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. At first, Janelle Monáe aimed to become a performer on Broadway, but she changed her mind and went to music instead. She felt that music has the power to change the world. Later on, Janelle Monáe moved to Atlanta, GA, where she met Big Boi from {{Outkast}} and founded the Wondaland Arts Society. Big Boi introduced Monáe to Sean "P Diddy" Combs which led her to be signed to Bad Boy Records in 2006.
With a few exceptions, Monáe's songs [[ConceptAlbum tell the story]] of the futuristic dystopia of Metropolis and Cindi Mayweather, a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots popular musician android]] and [[SuperPrototype prototype]] for the equally popular, mass-produced Alpha Platinum 3000 droidmodel, who model. Cindi falls in love with a human named Anthony Greendown and finds a bounty placed on her head as a result.
With a few exceptions, Monáe's songs [[ConceptAlbum tell the story]] of the futuristic dystopia of Metropolis and Cindi Mayweather, a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots popular musician android]] and [[SuperPrototype prototype]] for the equally popular, mass-produced Alpha Platinum 3000 droid
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* ScienceFictionVersusFantasy: The setting is an ultra-futuristic city full of RidiculouslyHumanRobots, but magic is apparently present.
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* ScienceFictionVersusFantasy: ScienceFantasy: The setting is an ultra-futuristic city full of RidiculouslyHumanRobots, but magic is apparently present.
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* TearJerker: [[Invoked]]; Monáe tears up in the "Cold War" video.
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* TearJerker: [[Invoked]]; {{Invoked}}; Monáe tears up in the "Cold War" video.
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Undetailed entries, Trivia and YMMV moved. Example Indentation
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* EpicRiff: "Mushrooms and Roses"; "Come Alive"; "Tightrope (The Wondamix)" (featuring B.O.B. and LupeFiasco)
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* HotChickInABadassSuit
* HitlessHitAlbum: Although her albums have charted on the Billboard 200, none of her singles have charted.
* HotChickInABadassSuit
* HitlessHitAlbum: Although her albums have charted on the Billboard 200, none of her singles have charted.
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* XMeetsY: XMeetsY:
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** [[{{Outkast}} Andre 3000]] meets AliciaKeys.
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-->--'''[[RobotOrSpacemanAlterEgo Cindi Wayweather]]'''
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-->--'''[[RobotOrSpacemanAlterEgo Cindi Wayweather]]'''
Mayweather]]'''
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* ArcNumber: 57821, which is both Cindi's serial number and her patient number at the Palace of the Dogs Asylum as well as the title of a song on ''The [=ArchAndroid=]''.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Cindi or Cindy?
* StarCrossedLovers: Cindi and Anthony; in Metropolis, an android who falls in love with a human faces the death penalty, whether they act on their feelings or not. It's implied that Anthony is also being hunted down as well. This trope is lampshaded in "March of the Wolfmasters", where Cindi is introduced as "a new star-crossed winner in our Heartbreak Sweepstakes."
* StarCrossedLovers: Cindi and Anthony; in Metropolis, an android who falls in love with a human faces the death penalty, whether they act on their feelings or not. It's implied that Anthony is also being hunted down as well. This trope is lampshaded in "March of the Wolfmasters", where Cindi is introduced as "a new star-crossed winner in our Heartbreak Sweepstakes."
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Cindi or Cindy?
Cindy? Official sources lean heavily toward the former.
* StarCrossedLovers: Cindi and Anthony; in Metropolis, an android who falls in love with a human faces the death penalty, whether they act on their feelings or not. It's implied that Anthony isalso being hunted down as well. This trope is lampshaded in "March of the Wolfmasters", where Cindi is introduced as "a new star-crossed winner in our Heartbreak Sweepstakes."
* StarCrossedLovers: Cindi and Anthony; in Metropolis, an android who falls in love with a human faces the death penalty, whether they act on their feelings or not. It's implied that Anthony is
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* TearJerker: [[invoked]] [[Invoked]]; Monáe tears up in the "Cold War" video.
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-->''[[LampshadeHanging T-t-t-talkin' bout, "Why don't she change her clothes?"]] Well, they ain't seem to mind the last THREE times I posed in Vogue!!''
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They\'re still close enough to be recognizable as by the same artist.
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* NewSoundAlbum:
** ''The Chase'' is very different from ''The Audition''.
** While ''The [=ArchAndroid=]'' has songs that are very similar in style to those on ''The Chase'', the former has more songs that are very different from the latter.
** ''The Chase'' is very different from ''The Audition''.
** While ''The [=ArchAndroid=]'' has songs that are very similar in style to those on ''The Chase'', the former has more songs that are very different from the latter.
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* NewSoundAlbum:
**NewSoundAlbum: ''The Chase'' (and later work) is very different from her first album ''The Audition''.
** While ''The [=ArchAndroid=]'' has songs that are very similar in style to those on ''The Chase'', the former hasAudition,'' which had a more songs that are very different from the latter.conventional R&B/pop sound.
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** While ''The [=ArchAndroid=]'' has songs that are very similar in style to those on ''The Chase'', the former has
